Pakistan’s ailing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will leave for London on Sunday for treatment as his condition remains critical, a senior PML-N leader said on Saturday.

The 69-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo agreed on Friday to go to the UK for the treatment, heeding doctors’ advice and accepting his family’s request.

Although his name is in the no fly-list, the Imran Khan government has assured to remove it by Friday evening, he said.
Sharif is leaving for London after doctors categorically told him that they had exhausted all the options available in Pakistan and seeking treatment abroad was the only one left, the leader said.

The three-time premier has already secured bail in Al-Azizia Mills corruption case for eight weeks on medical grounds and in the money laundering case. In Al-Azizia case, Sharif was serving a seven-year imprisonment in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.

His daughter Maryam Nawaz will not accompany him as she had to surrender her passport to the Lahore High Court as a surety against the bail granted to her in the money laundering case. She may explore the option of going to London later, the PML-N lader said.

The Pakistan government decided to let Sharif go abroad for treatment due to his critical medical conditions.Arrangements have been made for Sharif’s treatment at Harley Street Clinic.

Shehbaz has already spoken to consultants at one of the Harley Street clinics where patients suffering from drop in platelets are treated privately, the report said.

Earlier Speaking to the media on Friday, Sharif’s daughter Maryam, 46, said the family could not risk Sharif’s health and has decided to send him abroad.